05 May 2012

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 5MAY2012

NASA Hunts Fireball Explosion Pieces
French Tribune
In order to find out meteorite that emerged from daytime fireball explosion, the six researchers from NASA and the Search for Extreterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute went for a hunting mission. They took out the massive aircraft Eureka from ...

'Supermoon,' Meteor Shower Make for Sky-Watching Double Feature
Patch.com
On Saturday and Sunday (May 5- 6) a "supermoon" of 2012 and the Eta Aquarid meteor shower will both hit their peak, reports the Huffington Post. While the bright full moon could interfere with themeteor display, some of the shower's brightest ...

BBC: California's 'Meteor Zombies' Hunt for ...
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http://sheilaaliens.net/?p=656 "One of the most important meteor strikes in a generation has ...
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Coloma Business Booms From Meteorite Hunt ...
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'Supermoon' May Outshine Meteor Shower This ...
May's "supermoon" is the biggest full moon of the year and occurs Saturday, May 5. Bright ...
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Scientists Use Airship To Look for Meteorites
Sci-Tech Today
Scientists from NASA and the nonprofit SETI Institute are hunting for pieces of ameteorite that plunged to Earth on April 22, taking off for their search aboard an airship outfitted with sensors and cameras. Most of the rocks recovered so far by ...

Coloma Business Booms From Meteorite Hunt
CBS Local
Turns out those zombies were meteorite hunters who told her its path went right over her property. “I realized shortly thereafter it was meteor frenzy,” said Holme. Thousands from all over the country are flocking to get their piece of the rare rock.

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4月28日 APOD 「サッターズミル隕石」:4月28日 APOD Sutter's Mill Meteorite 「サッターズミル隕石」を読みました。原文:http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120428.html ...
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Supermoon' May Outshine Meteor Shower This Weekend - Yahoo ...
From Yahoo! News: UPDATE: For the latest on Saturday's "supermoon" and meteor shower, read our latest story here: 'Supermoon' Science: Why Saturday's ...
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Eta Aquarid Meteor Update -- Fire in the Sky -- Sott.net
The eta Aquarid meteor shower, due to peak on May 5-6, is already underway. Cameras in NASA's All-Sky Fireball Network have picked up more than a dozen ...
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Wanted: Meteor Imagery - NASA Watch
"NASA and the SETI Institute are asking the public for more information to help find amateur photos and video footage of the daylight meteor that illuminated the ...
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Search Expanding For Meteorite Fragments - Yahoo ...
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Scientists hunt meteorite fragments from Zeppelin
News10.net
They were looking for evidence of impact sites: Places where pieces of last week's exploding meteorite might have struck the earth. They believe the Zeppelin provided a perfect platform. "The great thing about the Zeppelin is that it doesn't go fast," ...

Hunters sell space rock for more than gold
The Sun
Thousands of prospectors — known as “meteor zombies” — are scouring the Californian desert in the hope of finding a tiny black nugget. The rush was sparked after a 70-ton meteor plunged through the atmosphere, creating a deafening sonic boom as it ...

NASA, SETI Use Airship to Hunt Meteorites From Big Fireball
Space.com
by Mike Wall, SPACE.com Senior Writer In what must be a meteorite-hunting first, a team of scientists took a zeppelin out Thursday (May 3) to search for fragments from a rare daytime fireballthat exploded over California last month.

Supermoon and Aquarid meteor shower: viewing tips for Saturday night, May 5
Washington Post (blog)
(Bob Gathany - AP) It's a party in the night sky: the Supermoon and Aquarid meteor shower coinciding on Saturday night, Cinco de Mayo (May 5). This convergence of events is definitely cause for celebration if you're a sky watcher.

Scientists aboard blimp to search for meteorites strewn over California gold ...
The Republic
Researchers from NASA and the SETI Institute are using the zeppelin, Eureka for their aerial search in hope of spotting sites where large fragments landed after a meteor exploded in the atmosphere over the Sierra Nevada in late April.

What to do if you find a meteorite
Sacramento Bee
Meteorites generally look different from normal Earth rocks. They usually have a "goose bumps" texture, are oddly shaped, and are either black or dark gray, a result of being burned on entering the atmosphere. If you think you have found a meteorite, ...

Super Moon, Solar Eclipse, Meteor Shower From Halley's Comet On Tap In May, 2012
Huffington Post
While the bright full moon could interfere with the Eta Aquarid meteor display, some of the shower's brightest fireballs should still be visible late Saturday and early Sunday, NASA scientists say. Then, on May 20, the moon will pass in front of the ...

Treasure Hunters Flock To California For Pieces Of Six-Billion-Year-Old Meteor
Gizmodo Australia
A stay-at-home mum was out walking her dog recently when she stumbled upon a weird, 17-gram rock. It turned out to be 4-6 billion years old. And from space. And it's worth $US20,000. Is El Dorado County due for another gold rush?

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From The Field: NASA Uses Blimp In Meteor Search ...
In a first for NASA, a group of scientists is preparing to board a blimp to search for meteorites that ...
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NASA Researchers Search For Meteor Fragments in A Zeppelin
Sacramento Bee
Scientists spent most of the day in aa dirigible searching for evidence of the recentmeteor that fell over parts of El Dorado county. A Zeppelin NT airship returns for a landing at McLellan Park in North Highlands on Thursday.

Interactive map: See where meteorites fell
Sacramento Bee
By Nathaniel Levine As of Tuesday, scientists had confirmed eighteen finds related to the Sutter's Mill Meteorite, the meteorite that plunged to Earth on April 22. Use the interactive maps to zoom in and see where the fragments were recovered.

How to Find a Meteorite in 5 Steps
Scientific American
By Natalie Wolchover and Life's Little Mysteries | May 2, 2012 A chrondite meteoritein situ in Rub' al Khali, Saudi Arabia. Image: Creative Commons | Meteorite Recon Earth is under constant bombardment by space rocks. When they crash and burn through ...

Lyrid Meteor Shower Wows Skywatchers Around the World - Yahoo ...
From Yahoo! News: The Lyrid meteor shower amazed some skywatchers around the world with bright celestial fireworks this weekend, thanks in part to the lack ...
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BBC News - On the hunt with California's 'meteor ...
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When a meteor shower streaked across the north California skies 10 days ago, treasure ...
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On the hunt with California's 'meteor zombies'
BBC News
One of the most important meteor strikes in a generation has brought treasure-hunters flocking to a small town in northern California for the second time in 150 years. The great gold rush began in the Coloma Valley in 1848, and now a meteor rush is ...

Kate Becker: Earth was pummeled by asteroids even as life thrived
Daily Camera
Meteor Crater, a mile-wide, 550-foot deep basin in Arizona, looks like nothing so much as -- well, ameteor crater. Yet in the early 1900s, most geologists thought it was the product of a volcanic eruption. An asteroid would have had to drop straight ...

NASA Using Zeppelin To Hunt Meteor - Yahoo! News
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Revisiting Virginia's famed space rock
The Free Lance-Star
You may recall the Lorton meteorite, which punched through the roof of a doctors office building in Lorton back in 2010, and was the subject of much earthly litigation between the doctors who rented the building and the building's landlords.

'Supermoon,' Meteor Shower and Solar Eclipse to Grace May Skies
Space.com
But the moon is just one of several tantalizing sky events this month, which include a meteorshower from Halley's comet and the first solar eclipse of the year. The skywatching action starts with a celestial double-feature. On Saturday and Sunday (May ...

Scientists use airship to look for meteorites
Las Vegas Sun
There has to be big pieces out there," SETI Institute meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens said before the trip. "We're just hoping to collect more meteorites for research." Days after the approximately 154300-pound meteor plunged through Earth's ...

Ed's Almanac: Two reasons to look skyward this weekend
KTVQ Billings News
That' the source of the annual eta Aquarid meteor shower. Most meteors are smaller than a grain of sand, so almost all of them disintegrate and never hit the Earth's surface. The prime viewing time for this year's display will be Friday night, ...

Man Finds Part of Exploding Space Rock That Shook California
MyFox Los Angeles
AP Last Sunday's Sonic Boom from the Lyrid Meteor Shower was felt from Reno to the OC. Now a Arizona man has found a once in a lifetime souvenir. Robert Ward has been hunting and collecting meteorites for more than 20 years so he knew he'd found ...

Scientists use airship to look for meteorites
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Carrying scientists and researchers, the zeppelin, Eureka lifts off from McClellan Air Park in Sacramento, Calif., to search for pieces of a meteorite, Thursday, May 3, 2012. The researchers are using an aerial search hoping to locate sites where large ...

Sacramento Area Mother Finds Meteorite Worth $20,000
WebProNews Thu, 03 May 2012 14:36 PM PDT
Brenda Salveson is just a regular mother. She like to bring her kids and dog to the park in Lotus, California almost every day for a walk. During her walk, she found a particular rock that caught her eye. Turns â¦

Brenda Salveson Finds $20,000 Meteorite While Walking Dog In Lotus, California
International Business Times Thu, 03 May 2012 13:53 PM PDT
Brenda Salveson is one lucky mom -- a meteorite landed in her lap and now the Lotus, Calif., resident can expect to become $20,000 richer for her lucky find.

Scientists to use blimp to look for meteorite pieces
News 3 Las Vegas Thu, 03 May 2012 12:12 PM PDT
A group of scientists will board a blimp to search for meteorites that rained over California's gold country last month.

NASA Sets Off On First Of Its Kind Meteorite Hunt
KCRA 3 Sacramento Thu, 03 May 2012 11:54 AM PDT
A group of scientists lifted off in a zepellin to search for meteorites that rained over California's gold country last month.

Mars Opportunity rover reaches Endeavour crater, finds signs of ancient Martian water
Ars Technica Thu, 03 May 2012 11:23 AM PDT
Over seven years into its (originally) 90-day mission, the Mars rover Opportunity arrived at the rim of Endeavour Crater. While the crater itself was formed from an ancient meteorite impact, the rocks at its rim show signs of a watery past. Chemical analysis found deposits typical of hydrothermal vents on Earth, along with features usually associated with evaporation. Together, these pieces of ...

Scientists on the hunt for meteorite fragments in the Sierra
The Sacramento Bee Thu, 03 May 2012 11:18 AM PDT
Scientists today are mounting a massive search in the Sierra Nevada foothills for meteorite fragments that may hold clues to extraterrestrial life.

Mom walks dog, finds $20,000 meteorite
CNET Thu, 03 May 2012 09:49 AM PDT
Unlike many visitors to her Californian town, Brenda Salverson isn't looking for buried treasure. But she finds it all the same.

California`s Gold Country yields gems from space
The Wenatchee World Thu, 03 May 2012 06:05 AM PDT
COLOMA-LOTUS VALLEY, Calif. â In the week since a fireball shot across the sky and exploded, scattering a rare type of meteorite over California`s Gold Country, these hills have drawn a new rush of treasure seekers. Once again there are lively saloons, fortune hunters jockeying for prime spots and astounding tales of luck including that of Brenda Salveson, a local who found a valuable space ...

Smoking Gun Group Posts an Update About Its Bantam Lake UFO (orMeteorite) Investigation
Litchfield County Times Thu, 03 May 2012 05:06 AM PDT
A photo of the Lyrid Meteor Shower at its peak. (Credit: AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) LITCHFIELDâThe investigation into what reportedly fell into Bantam Lake early last month continues for the Smoking Gun Research Agency (SGRA) of Orange, a group that studies the paranormal, metaphysical and unexplained.

$20,000 Meteorite: Brenda Salveson Found $20K Space Rock in Lotus Town (Video)
Batangas Today Thu, 03 May 2012 01:02 AM PDT
A $20,000-meteorite was reportedly found by Brenda Salveson at a park in Lotus town in El Dorado County. The space rock was about 4 to 6 billion years old, according to a CBS report on Tuesday, May 1, 2012. The precious meteorite weighs about 17 grams that is a little over a tablespoon of sugar. [...]

Scientists use blimp to look for meteorites
The Associated Press
(AP) — A group of scientists took to the skies in a blimp Thursday in search ofmeteorites that rained over California's gold country last month. It's the latest hunt for extraterrestrial fragments from the April 22 explosion that was witnessed over a ...

Mom walks dog, finds $20000 meteorite
CNET
Recently, a massive meteorite exploded over the town, so people have been flying in from all parts of the earthly world in order to claim their piece of otherworldly matter. Brenda Salverson doesn't seem to have been caught up in this frenzy.

Scientists to use blimp to look for meteorites
Seattle Post Intelligencer
(AP) — A group of scientists will board a blimp to search for meteorites that rained over California's gold country last month. The researchers from NASA and the SETI Institute plan to depart from a Sacramento airfield sometime Thursday.

Scientists to use blimp to look for meteorites
Huffington Post
Since the meteor exploded in the atmosphere over the Sierra Nevada in late April, swarms of scientists and amateur meteorite hunters have recovered tiny pieces from the event, mostly in a region where James W. Marshall first discovered gold in ...

Treasure Hunters Flock to California Searching For Pieces of Six-Billion-Year ...
Gizmodo
A stay-at-home mom was out walking her dog recently when she stumbled upon a weird, 17-gram rock. It turned out to be 4 to 6 billion years old. And from space. And it's worth $20000. Is El Dorado County due for another gold rush?

Brenda Salveson Stumbles Upon Meteorite Worth $20000 In Local California Park
Huffington Post
Brenda Salveson found a meteorite potentially worth $20000 in a local park where she brings her kids and dog, a local TV station in Sacramento reports. “I was lucky, blessed, good karma,” Salveson told CBS Local. “It was sitting there at my toes like ...

P'gould's 'pet rock' still hot historical topic after 82 years
Paragould Daily Press
A unique fact in history that some may remember is the meteorite that landed here in 1930. According to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture, the meteorite was known as the Paragould Meteorite and was the largest to have been seen falling ...

Meteorite hunters strike pay dirt
Los Angeles Times
COLOMA-LOTUS VALLEY, Calif — In the week since a fireball shot across the sky and exploded, scattering a rare type of meteorite over California's Gold Country, these hills have drawn a new rush of treasure seekers. Once again there are lively saloons, ...

Loud bang a meteor? (updated) | Sonora / Tuolumne News, Sports ...
An eastbound hunk of an apparent meteor barreled over the Central Sierra foothills on Sunday morning, rattling windows and nerves from Groveland and ...
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Meteorite hunting -- KTXL
Meteorite hunting. FOX40.com - Darren Peck reports - 04/27/12. Email; Share Video: Featured ...
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Skywatching opportunity: Aquarid meteor shower this weekend
The Herald-Mail
By Scott Dance Clouds blocked our view of the recent Lyrid meteor shower, but there is another chance to see “shooting stars” this weekend. The Eta Aquarids are expected to peak in the early mornings of Saturday and Sunday.

Catch a Glimpse of Halley's Comet Debris -- Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower
NASA
View large image Each spring as Earth passes through the debris trail from Halley's Comet (1P/Halley), the cosmic bits burn up in our atmosphere and result in the annual Eta Aquarid meteor shower. This year the peak will occur on the night of May 5 and ...

Sighted METEORITE IN BRAZIL (FIREBALL) - YouTube
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Gold Country Meteorites: Earth Image of the Week
Earthweek - A Diary of the Planet
And just like the miners who rushed to the same area after gold was discovered at nearby Sutter's Mill in 1848, meteorite collectors from far and wide soon arrived on their own astronomical treasure hunt. And what they found scattered on the ground ...

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Meteorite Hunting with Robert Ward -- KTXL
Meteorite Hunting with Robert Ward. FOX40.com - Darren Peck reports - 4/27/12. Email; Share ...
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Want to get rich? Meteorites are worth three times as much as gold
Examiner.com
Peter Jenniskens is one of the world's most dedicated, and successful, meteorite hunters. Taking known data from last weekend's event, Jenniskens was able to deduce where fragments of themeteorite, if they survived at all, would have landed.

A Meteor In Melchor / Peten, GuatemalanChannel 7 Daily News
Some said it was a missile from the Zetas, other said the Guatemalan Military had shot down a plane - well it was neither: Guatemalan authorities have concluded that it was a meteor. According to reports coming out of Guatemala, several residents of ...

California meteor intrigues scientists
Space Daily
by Staff Writers Fragments of a meteorite that landed in California last week are much more interesting because of their composition than first thought, scientists say. Meteorite hunters found fragments after the meteor was sighted streaking through ...

Meteor Shower and a Solar Eclipse - May 2012 ...
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Highlights of the month include the Eta Aquarid meteor shower, which peaks on May 6th and ...
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'Supermoon' could outshine meteor shower
msnbc.com
The biggest full moon of the year, a so-called "supermoon," will take center stage when it rises this weekend, and may interfere with the peak of an annual meteor shower created by the leftovers from Halley's comet. The supermoon of 2012 is the biggest ...

How to Find a Meteorite in 5 Steps
SPACE.com Wed, 02 May 2012 08:43 AM PDT
Finding a specimen from space takes hard work and dedication, but these steps will get you looking in the right direction.

Meteorite Hunting: Five Tips For Finding Space Rocks
The Huffington Post Wed, 02 May 2012 06:51 AM PDT
Earth is under constant bombardment by space rocks. When they crash and burn through the atmosphere, most of the debris gets lost to the oceans, while some is buried or gradually weathered away.

What Can I Say
The Pilot-Independent Wed, 02 May 2012 06:22 AM PDT
A meteorite fell in California April 22 and has been reported as being a minivan-size meteor before breaking up. Photographers were able to catch pictures of the meteor as it passed over Nevada. These sightings are not uncommon, but this one has turned out to be quite special.

Smoking Gun Group Posts an Update About Its Bantam Lake UFO (orMeteorite) Investigation
Litchfield County Times Wed, 02 May 2012 05:52 AM PDT
A photo of the Lyrid Meteor Shower at its peak. (Credit: AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) LITCHFIELDâThe investigation into what reportedly fell into Bantam Lake early last month continues for the Smoking Gun Research Agency (SGRA) of Orange, a group that studies the paranormal, metaphysical and unexplained.

Fragments of meteorite worth their weight in gold
PhysOrg Wed, 02 May 2012 05:25 AM PDT
Actually itâs more like 3.5 times their weight in gold, according to todayâs market value⦠and meteorite experts from SETI and NASAâs Marshall Space Flight Center.

Orange-based Smoking Gun Group posts update about its Bantam Lake UFO (or meteorite) investigation
New Haven Register Wed, 02 May 2012 04:31 AM PDT
LITCHFIELD â The investigation into what reportedly fell into Bantam Lake early last month continues for the Smoking Gun Research Agency (SGRA) of Orange, a group that studies the paranormal, metaphysical and unexplained.

Mom Stumbles Onto Meteorite Worth About $20,000
CBS Sacramento Tue, 01 May 2012 19:09 PM PDT
People from all over the world are in the tiny town of Lotus in El Dorado County looking for something that's out of this world, but leave it to a stay-at-home mom walking her dog to find a precious meteorite.

California meteor intrigues scientists
UPI Tue, 01 May 2012 18:36 PM PDT
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 1 (UPI) -- Fragments of a meteorite that landed in California last week are much more interesting because of their composition than first thought, scientists say.


Mom stumbles onto meteorite worth about $20000
WTSP 10 News
LOTUS, CA (CBS13) - People from all over the world are in the tiny town of Lotus in El Dorado County looking for something that's out of this world, but leave it to a stay-at-home mom walking her dog to find a precious meteorite.

Mother stumbles across tiny meteorite worth $20000 during walk in park with pup
Daily Mail
Meteorites landed in in El Dorado County several days ago, according to CBS, and dozens of treasure-seekers have descended upon Lotus Park, looking for pieces of the fireball. Mrs Salveson's 17 gram rock, equal to the size of a tablespoon of sugar, ...

Meteor photo released
Reno News & Review
By Dennis Myers The National Aeronautics and Space Administration provided this photo taken from the Reno area of the April 22 meteor. The photo is credited to Lisa Warren. The meteor, which was heard across California and Nevada, disintegrated over ...

Vietnamese people expect to see meteor shower
VietNamNet Bridge
VietNamNet Bridge – They can see part of the Eta Aquarids meteor shower between 4 and 5am on May 6. Dang Vu Tuan Son, chairman of the Vietnam Amateur Astronomy Club, said Ata Aquarids, which lies in the constellation Aquarius, will be a smallmeteor ...

 Meteor in Coloma California - YouTube
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Brief Video with info about the meteor that fell in Coloma/Lotus, California.
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 How To Find A Meteorite! - YouTube
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Order your SourceFed Posters here: http://dft.ba/-SourceFedPosters A quick step- by-step guide to ...
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Mom Stumbles Onto Meteorite Worth About $20000
CBS Local
LOTUS (CBS13) – People from all over the world are in the tiny town of Lotus in El Dorado County looking for something that's out of this world, but leave it to a stay-at-home mom walking her dog to find a precious meteorite. The rock Brenda Salveson ...

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: MBIQ Detects Possible ...
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Meteorite Hunting: Five Tips For Finding Space Rocks
Huffington Post
For folks like Robert Ward, a professional meteorite hunter who last month found a piece of a meteorthat was seen crashing through Earth's atmosphere above California the day before, the thrill is finding new arrivals. Furthermore, when a newly fallen ...

PhotoBlog - NASA releases photo of meteor blazing across Nevada ...
NASA has released a photograph of a flaming meteor that unleashed a powerful sonic boom Sunday morning, rattling houses in California and Nevada when its ...
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APOD: 2012 April 25 - Meteor Over Crater Lake
One of the more common questions during a meteor shower occurs because the time it takes for ameteor to flash is typically less than the time it takes for a head ...
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Huge fireball and explosion across California and Nevada as meteor
The boom of the space rock as it disintegrated rattled houses in both California and Nevada and ...
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Huge-fireball-explosion-California-N...

Dinosaurs on the decline before meteor collision
Mother Nature Network
The demise of all dinosaurs except birds came about 65 million years ago, when researchers think a giant meteor collided with Earth. Still, it was unclear if mass extinctions started gradually before the impact, perhaps due to volcanoes or other forces ...

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Italia Meteor Fireball ...
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Breaking News - California / Nevada Daytime Bolide Meteor Fireball 22APR2012. California / Nevada Daytime Bolide Meteor Fireball 22APR2012 A bright fireball occurred over California and Nevadaat approximately 8:00am P... The Latest ...
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Fragments of Meteorite Worth Their Weight in Gold
Universe Today
by Jason Major on May 1, 2012 Actually it's more like 3.5 times their weight in gold, according to today's market value… and meteorite experts from SETI and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. During the daylight hours of April 22, 2012, reports came...

Picture Special - The Northern Lights and Lyrid Meteor over Ireland
Derry Journal
Journal reader Patryk Sadowski has sent us some amazing shots of the Northern Lights and LyridMeteor taken in the skies above the north west of Ireland over recent weeks. Please sign in to be able to comment on this story. Search for: (Plumber, Taxi, ...

'Supermoon' May Outshine Meteor Shower This Weekend
Space.com
by Tariq Malik, SPACE.com Managing Editor The biggest full moon of the year, a so-called "supermoon," will take center stage when it rises this weekend, and may interfere with the peak of an annual meteor shower created by the leftovers from Halley's ...

Geoff Notkin on the California fireball - Dave's Universe - Astronomy ...
By David Eicher
Check out this movie I shot on Friday at the Northeast Astro Imaging Conference (NEAIC) in Suffern, New York. It features Geoff Notkin of the TV show Meteorite Men on the Science Channel talking about the April 22 meteorite that was widely ...
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Italia Meteor Fireball 2MAY2012

Ferrara, Italy Meteor Fireball 2MAY2012 00:5:508+1 UTC
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Fireball from Ferrara, Italy.
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California meteor intrigues scientists
UPI.com
Meteorite hunters found fragments after the meteor was sighted streaking through the sky April 22 and exploding in a fireball. NASA and the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., mobilized a search team last weekend to look for the fragile black ...

Meteor crash in Calif. excites Gold Rush-style hunters
USA TODAY
By Douglas Stanglin, USA TODAY The minivan-sized metor, weighing as much as 70 metric tons, turned into a fireball as it streaked across part of central and northern California a week ago Sunday, largely disintegrating as it plunged toward Earth.

How to Find a Meteorite in 5 Steps
LiveScience.com via Yahoo! Canada News Tue, 01 May 2012 13:39 PM PDT
Earth is under constant bombardment by space rocks. When they crash and burn through the atmosphere, most of the debris gets lost to the oceans, while some is buried or gradually weathered away. Nonetheless, plenty of chunks of fallen meteors, or meteorites, are strewn across the accessible parts of the planet. So far, more than 40,000 meteorites have been found and catalogued, and countless ...

Fragments of Meteorite Worth Their Weight in Gold
Universe Today Tue, 01 May 2012 13:21 PM PDT
Actually itâs more like 3.5 times their weight in gold, according to todayâs market value⦠and meteorite experts from SETI and NASAâs Marshall Space Flight Center. (...)Read the rest of Fragments ofMeteorite Worth Their Weight in Gold (465 words) © Jason Major for Universe Today, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Post tags: [...]

Today on New Scientist: 1 May 2012
New Scientist Tue, 01 May 2012 10:05 AM PDT
All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: LHC gets first glimpse of excited baryon and California meteorite is rare rock laden with organics...

Possible Fallen Meteorite in North Guatemala Being Investigated
Latin American Herald Tribune
GUATEMALA CITY – The director of Guatemala's National Seismology, Vulcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology Institute said Tuesday that authorities are investigating a possible fallen meteorite in the northern province of Peten.

Meteorite Hunters Flock To Foothills - Video - KCRA ...
Several people search the El Dorado foothills for pieces of a meteorite that sprayed the area a ...
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May's first meteor shower battles a Full Moon
Astronomy Magazine
By Michael E. Bakich — Published: May 1, 2012 The Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks before dawn May 5. Unfortunately, a Full Moon will hinder the view. Astronomy: Roen Kelly Enjoying ameteor shower requires only comfort and patience.

Dinosaurs were declining before asteroid struck, say scientists (+video)
Christian Science Monitor
By the time that giant meteor collided with our planet at the end of the Cretaceous, some dinosaur species were already heading toward extinction, new research indicates. By Charles Q. Choi, LiveScience Contributor / May 1, 2012 Tyrannosaurus rex is ...

Crashed Meteor Sparks Frenzy in Northern California
KSEE
By Douglas Stanglin, USA TODAY An image provided by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows a meteor over Reno, Nevada on April 22, 2012. Not far from Sutter's Mill, Calif., where the Gold Rush began in 1848, a new breed of mineral hunter is scouring ...

3055 g Oslo meteorite found
a Norwegian television news report (Dagsrevyen on NRK, 30th April 2012) reported
that a 3055 g specimen of the recent OSLO fall was found
on the 26th April in Grefsen, north of Oslo.
NRK television report (30th April 2012): http://www.nrk.no/nett-tv/indeks/304779/
the meteorite: http://www.geotop.no/files/large/dscn6868.jpg
NRK website:
http://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&sl=no&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nrk.no%2Fnyheter%2Fdistrikt%2Fostlandssendingen%2F1.8110226
Morton Bilet does also report on his website:
http://www.geotop.no/storefront.pages.php?id=47
map: http://www.geotop.no/files/large/met-oslo-1.jpg

2012 THE Year of Meteors!

MBIQ Detects Belize Meteor 30APR2012

MBIQ Detects Belize Meteor 30APR2012
Meteor Bot Internet Query (MBIQ) Bot has detected a possible meteor event over Belize on 30APR2012.  More details as reports come in.
Belize, Honduras, Mexico Bolide 30APR2012
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Sighting Reports:

30APRIL2012 Sol Mancera CHETUMAL, QUINTANA ROO, MÉXICO 22:30 pm 5 NORTH EAST RIGHT TO LEFT RED, ORANGE LIKE THE MOON NO NO

30APRIL2012 Alesther San Pedro Sula, Honduras, COR CM1102 21:35:00 5 sec right to left, facing west the tail was green and the body was light blue bright but not that much no It was surreal for us, very exciting, first time we saw a meteor

30APR2012 Harry Noble Benque Viejo, Cayo District,Belize 21:30 CST 5 sec SW-NE brief Bright light then orange coloured pieces Bright as lightning yes parts fell off sounf heard a couple of minutes later

30APR2012 Blanca Manzanilla Lamanai, Belize 2135 couple seconds left to right - facing south remember blue green very bright and beautiful not that i noticed wish i took a photo but no


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2012 THE Year of Meteors!

01 May 2012

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 1MAY2012


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Meteorite Pieces Found in Coloma, Lotus -- KTXL
Meteorite Pieces Found in Coloma, Lotus ... Meteorite Hunting with Robert Ward ( 03:53 ...
fox40.com

California Meteorite Leads To Frantic 'Gold Rush' Search
The Inquisitr
Hundreds of people from all over the country this week took to California's 30-square-mile “Gold Country” region to search for fragments of a meteorite that fell to earth last week, rattling windows and causing a sonic boom as it entered earths ...


Meteor shower: Treasure seekers flock to California Gold Country
Los Angeles Times
In the week since a fireball shot across the sky and exploded, scattering a rare type of meteorite over California's Gold Country, the hills have drawn a new rush of treasure seekers. Once again there are lively saloons, fortune hunters jockeying for ...


A Lyrid meteor shower look back: Exploding fireball scatters debris over ...
Washington Post (blog)
By Steve Tracton Via NASA: A meteor in the sky above Reno, Nevada on April 22, 2012. Image credit: Lisa WarrenThose who saw the Lyrid meteor shower were treated to a spectacular show of celestial fireworks during the pre-dawn of Sunday, April 22.

Auburn Webelos Coloma campout yields meteorite discovery
Auburn Journal
By Gus Thomson, Journal Staff Writer AUBURN CA - About the size and shape of a raisin, a meteorite is now the prized possession of a sharp-eyed Auburn boy. River Townsend, 10, made the extra-terrestrial find Saturday morning as meteorite treasure...

Meteorites Can Totally Make You Rich
The Atlantic Wire
Head to Rescue, California, where you can find meteorites which go for around $1000 per gram. According to The Los Angeles Times' Diana Marcum, there's a different type of California "gold rush" going on, the result of a meteorite leaving the ...

Meteor in Calif. excites Gold Rush-style hunt
Tucson Citizen
But scattered fragments, especially around the Coloma-Lotus area, have triggered an invasion by scientists, amateur meteor-chasers and and treasure hunters from around the world, the Los Angeles Times reports. The newspaper says the fragments are ...

Meteor hunters strike pay dirt in California`s Gold Country
Morris Daily Herald Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:03 PM PDT
COLOMA-LOTUS VALLEY, Calif. (MCT) â In the week since a fireball shot across the sky and exploded, scattering a rare type of meteoriteover Californiaâs Gold Country, these hills have drawn a new rush of treasure seekers.

Meteor hunters strike pay dirt
Los Angeles Times Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:29 PM PDT
A different kind of rush hits California's Gold Country after the recent shower of rocks from space, which scientists crave and can fetch $1,000 a gram. COLOMA-LOTUS VALLEY, Calif â In the week since a fireball shot across the sky and exploded, scattering a rare type of meteoriteover California's Gold Country, these hills have drawn a new rush of treasure seekers.

Last week's meteor sets off search for fragments by scientists, treasure hunters
Mobile Press-Register Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:50 AM PDT
Bits of the meteorite can go for as much as $1,000 a gram and are considered invaluable to science.

Meteor shower: Treasure seekers flock to California Gold Country
Los Angeles Times Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:03 AM PDT
In the week since a fireball shot across the sky and exploded, scattering a rare type of meteorite over California's Gold Country, these hills have drawn a new rush of treasure seekers.

Asteroid impacts join science fiction with fact
The Canton Daily Ledger Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:38 AM PDT
On June 30, 1908, just after sunrise, a remote region in Siberia by the Tunguska River was the scene of an event straight from a science fiction movie. A meteorite hit the earth with a force of 15 megatons of TNT, 1,000 times the energy of the bomb which leveled Hiroshima, destroying thousands of acres of forest, blowing out the windows and knocking down bystanders in a small trading station 70 ...

California Meteorite Leads¨To Frantic Gold Rush¨ Search
The Inquisitr Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:23 AM PDT
Hundreds of people from all over the country this week took to California`s 30-square-mile âGold Countryâ region to search for fragments of a meteorite that fell to earth last week, rattling windows and causing a sonic boom as it entered earths atmosphere and fell to the planets surface. The search for the meteorite has brought [...] California Meteorite Leads To Frantic Gold Rush Search is a ...

Meteor hunters strike pay dirt in California's Gold Country
Sacramento Bee
By DIANA MARCUM COLOMA-LOTUS VALLEY, Calif. -- In the week since a fireball shot across the sky and exploded, scattering a rare type of meteorite over California's Gold Country, these hills have drawn a new rush of treasure seekers.

Noon Hour Update: More meteors found in the foothills; sentencing delayed for ...
Auburn Journal
Reporter Gus Thomson will have a story on a local boy who recently found pieces of ameteor. Along with his meteor story, Gus will be reporting on another sentencing delay for Brian Jagger, the former Placer County campaign aide who pleaded guilty to a...

2012 THE Year of Meteors!

30 April 2012

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 30APR2012


A mother from the small Sierra community of Rescue ...
Scientists, full-time collectors and amateur meteorite hunters have since flocked to the Sierra.
fox40.com


3 min
FOX News 22.04.12 Possible Meteor Boom Wakes Nevada-California Region. Large parts of ...youtube.com

Meteorites from fireball found
The Nation, Pakistan
Tiny meteorites found in northern California were part of a giant fireball that exploded over the weekend with about one-third the explosive force of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima in World War II, scientists said on Wednesday.

Meteor Explosion Over California Was One Third The Size Of ...
RENO, Nev. — Tiny meteorites found in the Sierra foothills of northern California were part of a giant fireball that exploded over the weekend with about one-third ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../meteor-explosion-california_n_1...

Meteor hunters strike pay dirt
Los Angeles Times
A different kind of rush hits California's Gold Country after the recent shower of rocks from space, which scientists crave and can fetch $1000 a gram. Jason Utas, right, a geology student at UC Berkeley, shows a 7.5 gram fragment of a meteorite Doug ...

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: The Latest Worldwide ...
By Lunar Meteorite * Hunter
A fireball which streaked across the sky and caused a sonic boom Sunday startled residents of California and Nevada. The fireball was probably the result of a meteor passing through. It was observed last Sunday in the Sierra Foothhills, and ...
Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News


Meteorite hunters descend on Gold Rush towns ...
Meteorite hunters are flooding into this historic Gold Rush canyon in search of a new kind of ...
news10.net

NASA looking for video of weekend meteor
KGO-TV
Researchers are looking for photos and video of a meteor that came down in Northern California last Sunday. It created a sonic boom as it raced over the Sierra Nevada and broke apart. Pieces landed in Gold Country, about 35 miles north of Sacramento in ...

If You Got Video of Falling Meteor, NASA Wants You
Patch.com
People all over Northern California might have captured footage of a meteor that fell over the state on Sunday. Remember those mysterious booms that were heard around Novato on a sporadic basis, prompting residents to call police?

Meteor Explodes Over California
Astrobiology Magazine (press release)
“This was a BIG event,” said Elizabeth Silber of the Meteor Group at the Western University in Ontario, Canada. “Most meteors you see in the night's sky are the size of tiny stones or even grains of sand and their trail lasts all of a second or two,” ...

Skywatcher Photos: 2012 Quadrantid Meteor Shower
Space.com
by Tariq Malik, SPACE.com Managing Editor The annual Lyrid meteor shower will hit its peak this weekend and promises to put on an eye-catching display. So much so, NASA is pulling out all the stops. NASA scientists plan to track the Lyrid meteor shower ...

Weekly SkyWatcher's Forecast: April 30-May 6, 2012
Universe Today
Are you ready for another week filled with bright planets, a meteor shower, challenging lunar features, interesting stars and astronomy history? Then you have come to the right place! Bring along your telescopes and binoculars and meet me in the ..


Meteorites from giant fireball over California found Telegraph
Tiny meteorites found in northern California were part of a giant fireball that exploded over the weekend with about onethird the explosive force of the ...
www.telegraph.co.uk/.../Meteorites-from-giant-fireball-over-C...

Meteorite Shower Brings Joy for Hunters
French Tribune
It has been revealed that meteorite shower started on April 22, but it got worsened on the next day. A woman, who experienced the supersonic shower, said that her window panes were rattling even at the time when incident occurred some eight hundred ...
French Tribune

Asteroid impacts join science fiction with fact
Canton Daily Ledger
A meteorite hit the earth with a force of 15 megatons of TNT, 1000 times the energy of the bomb which leveled Hiroshima, destroying thousands of acres of forest, blowing out the windows and knocking down bystanders in a small trading station 70 ...

NASA describes Meteor Explosion a 'Huge Event ...
3 min
Dr. Bill Cooke with the Lead, NASA Meteroid Environments Office said themeteor eruption ...
youtube.com

Meteor Streaks Across Sky In the Sierra Nevada's ...
1 min
A large fireball was seen over the skys of California and Nevada on Sunday. A loud boom was ...
youtube.com

2012 THE Year of Meteors!

29 April 2012

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 29APR2012


Meteorite Hunters Flock To Foothills - Yahoo! News
2 min
Watch the video 'Meteorite Hunters Flock To Foothills' on Yahoo! News.
news.yahoo.com

Daytime Fireball and Sonic Boom Rattle Nevadans
Gather.com
A fireball which streaked across the sky and caused a sonic boom Sunday startled residents of California and Nevada. The fireball was probably the result of a meteor passing through. It was observed last Sunday in the Sierra Foothhills, and needless to ...

Meteorite Hunter Finds Solar Gold - Video - WDSU ...
Researchers believe tiny meteorites found in foothills were part of a giant fireball that exploded ...
wdsu.com

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Million $ California ...
By Lunar Meteorite * Hunter
Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News. Fireballs, Meteors, Bolides, Meteorites, Comets, Asteroid Impact,Meteorite Quest, Recent Meteorite Falls & Related News. Make a meteor report. *.blogspot...
Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News

Global News Views: Meteorite FOUND! Explosion ...
Meteorite FOUND! Explosion was 1/3rd Hiroshima!!!! Fragments of theMeteorite ( ?) that ...
globalnewsviews.blogspot.com

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CNN 米カリフォルニア州でゴールドラッシュならぬ隕石ラッシュが起きている同州北部の上空で22日午前ミニバンほどの大きさのある隕石が大気圏に突入し多数の破片 ...
www.cnn.co.jp/fringe/30006400.html

2012 THE Year of Meteors!